Because of the widespread abuses of the HTML meta tag, certain meta tags are not looked at by the search engines. However, they might help a bit (especially the description part). This article discusses various aspects of the meta tag.

Popular sites use the meta tags extensively even though the power and usefulness of this has gone down from the search engine perspective after years of inaccurate and abusive usage of the keywords. This article looks at how the popular sites are using the meta tags.